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Female Name
Usage
Finnish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of names ending in -nina / -nine [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
2) Pet form of names ending in -in / -ina / -ine / -inn / -inna / -inne [1] [3] [6] [7] [4] [8]
3) Latin spelling of Нина (Nina),
3a) a Russian short form of Аннинка (Anninka), a Russian pet form of Anna [2] [3] [6] [9] [7] [4]
3b) a Russian female form of the Greek name Νινος (Ninos), deriving from the Assyrian goddess Nin meaning 'goddess', 'mistress' [8] [5]
Related Names
See also Neina, Nenna, Niña, Ninette, Nini, Ninja, Ninnan, Ninni, Nynne
Male
Ninuson
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Female
Ninudóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Nina
|
Genitive: |
Ninas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Nina
|
Accusative: |
Ninu
|
Dative: |
Ninu
|
Genitive: |
Ninu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Nina
|
Genitive: |
Ninan
|
Partitive: |
Ninaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Nina
|
Genitive: |
Ninas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Nina
|
Genitive: |
Ninas
|
Name Days
Faroe Islands
|
1 June
|
Finland
|
26 October
|
Norway
|
4 April
|
 Finland (Swedish Language)
|
26 October
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Nina Hagerup Grieg (24 November 1845 – 9 December 1935), Danish–Norwegian lyric soprano
- Nina Henriette Wendeline Bang (née Ellinger, 6 October 1866 – 25 March 1928), Danish politician and historian
- Nina Nord (pseudonym of Annik Saxegaard), Norwegian writer
Trivia
- Nina was a heavy storm in Norway in January 2015.
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[13] |
|
12121 |
16396 |
12118 |
16392 |
3 |
4 |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
18537 |
n.a. |
18537 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[15] |
|
9107 |
n.a. |
9107 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[16] |
|
110 |
176 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[17] |
|
45 |
47 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[18] |
|
17918 |
n.a. |
17918 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [13][15][18][14]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [19]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Nina (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables